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Shows how crazy cheap on prem can be. tips hat
Not included is overhead of dealing with maintenance. S3/R2 generally don’t require OPS type dedicated to care and feeding. This type of setup will likely require someone to spend 5 hours a week dealing with it.
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True, though this is specifically for pretraining data (S3 wouldn't sell us used disk + no DR storage).
You're in a seismically active part of the world. Will the venture last in a total loss scenario?
I love this story. This is true hacking and startup cost awareness.
No mention of disk failure rates? curious how it's holding up after a few months
The disk failure rates are very low when compared to decade ago. I used to change more than a dozen disks every week a decade ago. Now it's an eyebrow raising event which I seldom see. I think following Backblaze's hard disk stats is enough at this point.
[0] https://www.backblaze.com/cloud-storage/resources/hard-drive...
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Not included is overhead of dealing with maintenance. S3/R2 generally don’t require OPS type dedicated to care and feeding. This type of setup will likely require someone to spend 5 hours a week dealing with it.
I once had about three racks full of servers under my control, admittedly they weren't a ton of disks, but still the hardware maintenance effort was pretty much negligible over a few years (until it all went to the cloud). The majority of server wrangling work I spent dealing with OS updates and, most annoyingly, OpenStack. But that's something you can't escape even if you run your stuff in the cloud...
$LastJob we ran a ton of Azure Web App Containers, alot of OS work no longer existed so it's possible with Cloud to remove alot of OS toil.
The biggest part that is always missing in such comparisons is the employee salaries. In the calculation they give $354k/year of total cost per year. But now add the cost of staff in SF to operate that thing.
someone has to go and power-cycle the machines every couple months it's chill, that's the point of not using ceph
I'm curious about the process of getting colo space. Did you use a broker? Did you negotiate, and if so, how large was the difference in price between what you initially were quoted and what you ended up paying?
The biggest part that is always missing in such comparisons is the employee salaries. In the calculation they give $354k/year of total cost per year. But now add the cost of staff in SF to operate that thing.
someone has to go and power-cycle the machines every couple months it's chill, that's the point of not using ceph
I think that anyone with actual experience of operating thousands of physical disks in datacenters would challenge this assumption.